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Verse 1 Samuel 7:5. _GATHER ALL ISRAEL TO MIZPEH_] This appears to
have been an _armed_ assembly, though probably collected principally
for religious and political purposes; but Samuel knew that an
_u...
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Compare the marginal references. Twenty years of Samuel’s life had
passed away since the last mention of him 1 Samuel 4:1. Now he appears
in the threefold character of prophet, Judge, and the acknowle...
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7. THE RETURN UNTO JEHOVAH AND THE DELIVERANCE
CHAPTER 7:3-14
_ 1. Samuel's message and the response of the people (1 Samuel 7:3)_
2. Gathered at Mizpah (1 Samuel 7:5)
3. The deliverance (1 Samuel...
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SAMUEL AS JUDGE. Philistines subdued by Divine intervention; probably
an ideal picture, by the Deuteronomic writer, of the happy results of
Israel's repentance and Samuel's piety peace, victory, and o...
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_to Mizpeh_ MIZPAH, (in Heb. always with the definite article, as
retaining its meaning, "the watch-tower,") was the meeting-place of
the national assembly on two other important occasions in this per...
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The National Repentance and Reformation under Samuel
2. _And it came to pass_, &c. Better, AND IT CAME TO PASS, FROM THE
DAY WHEN THE ARK RESTED IN KIRJATH-JEARIM, THAT A LONG TIME ELAPSED,
EVEN TWEN...
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_Israel Purged at Mizpeh._ 1 Samuel 7:3-8
3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do
return unto the Lord with all your hearts, _then_ put away the strange
gods and Ashtaroth f...
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_THEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID PUT AWAY BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH, AND
SERVED THE LORD ONLY._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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SAMUEL DELIVERS ISRAEL FROM THE PHILISTINES
The narrative in this chapter is taken from a different source from
the account which precedes....
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MIZPEH] in Benjamin.
PRAY] Samuel was noted as a man of prayer (cp. Psalms 99:6)....
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ISRAEL’S FIRST KING
1 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 7
V1 So men came from Kiriath Jearim to fetch the *ark of the Lord. They
took it to the house that belonged to Abinadab. His house was on a
hil...
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MIZPEH. — Or, as it should be spelt, _Mizpah,_ a common name for
lofty situations. It signifies a “watch-tower,” a place where an
outlook could be kept against an advancing enemy.
Now the assembly of...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל קִבְצ֥וּ אֶת
־כָּל ־יִ
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CHAPTER VIII.
_ REPENTANCE AND REVIVAL._
1 Samuel 7:1.
WITH the men of Bethshemesh the presence of the ark had become the
same terror as it had been successively at Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron.
Instead...
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LEADING THE NATION IN GOD'S WAYS
1 Samuel 7:5
We are here taught the successive steps that must be taken if revival
is to be granted to either Church or individual.
_ 1. Unity_. All Israel was gath...
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The Ark found its resting place temporarily at Gibeah, in the house of
Abinadab. A dark period of twenty years is passed over without
detailed record. It would seem that during all that time Israel wa...
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And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to (c) Mizpeh, and I will pray for
you unto the LORD.
(c) For Shiloh was now desolate, because the Philistines had taken the
ark from it....
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_Masphath lay south of Jerusalem, (Calmet) and was a convenient place
for all to meet at. (Menochius) They came armed, and the Philistines
(Calmet) suspecting their designs, proceeded to attack them....
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(5) And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for
you unto the LORD. (6) And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew
water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that...
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The first Book of Samuel (or of Kings as with some) brings before us
that great change for which the Book of Ruth was a preparation, and in
order to which the Spirit of God closed it with the generati...
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Samuel begins to act, by his testimony, upon the conscience of the
people, and to put away that which weakened them by dishonouring God.
He tells them that, if they will turn to Jehovah with all their...
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AND SAMUEL SAID, GATHER ALL ISRAEL TO MIZPEH,.... Not Mizpeh in
Gilead, on the other side Jordan, but a city which lay on the borders
of Judah and Benjamin, where the tribes met on the account of the...
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And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you
unto the LORD.
Ver. 5. _Gather all Israel to Mizpeh._] Heb., In that Mizpeh; famous
formerly for the slaughter of those kings of...
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_Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim_, &c. Samuel's
reproofs and instructions, and the representations he made of their
sin and danger, touched their hearts, and induced them to break off...
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1 They of Kiriath-iearim bring the Arke into the house of Abinadab,
and sanctifie Eleazar his sonne to keepe it.
2 After twentie yeeres
3 The Israelites, by Samuels meanes, solemnly repent at Mizpeh...
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And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, which was used as a
place of assembly at other times also, Judges 20:1, AND I WILL PRAY
FOR YOU UNTO THE LORD, principally with the object of restoring th...
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REFORMATION IN ISRAEL...
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Men from Kirjath-jearim respond to the call to bring the ark there. It
is not said how it was transported, nor whether it was Levites who
attended it. We are not even told whether Abinadab, to whose h...
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5,6 Israel drew water and poured it out before the Lord; signifying
their humiliation and sorrow for sin. They pour out their hearts in
repentance before the Lord. They were free and full in their
co...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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1 Samuel 7:5 Samuel H8050 said H559 (H8799) Gather H6908 (H8798)
Israel H3478 Mizpah H4708 pray H6419 ...
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THE ARK HAVING BEEN RESTORED, ISRAEL DEFEAT THE PHILISTINES THROUGH
THE PRAYERS OF SAMUEL, YHWH'S REPRESENTATIVE (1 SAMUEL 7:5).
Analysis.
a And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I wil...
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CONTENTS: Ark brought to house of Abinadab. Revival of Mizpah. Victory
at Eben-ezer.
CHARACTERS: God, Samuel, Eleazar, Abinadab.
CONCLUSION: When we are truly sensible that by sin we have provoked
G...
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1 Samuel 7:1. _Sanctified Eleazar,_ a levite, to keep the ark. Holy
persons were consecrated by imposition of hands and by sacrifices, as
was Samuel, a levite also. Abinadab seems to have been aged or...
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_And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do
return unto the Lord with all your hearts._
SAMUEL THE JUDGE
For more than twenty years the Philistines had held undisputed sway
over...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 7:2__ Samuel has not appeared since 1
Samuel 4:1, but when he calls the people to repent of their idolatry,
they respond. He is clearly the leader of “all... Israel” ...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 7:5 MIZPAH was probably about 7 miles (11
km) north of Jerusalem, near an important north-south road. It was a
place of assembly for all Israel, as in...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
1 Samuel 7:6. “DREW WATER, AND POURED IT OUT BEFORE THE LORD,”
etc. “It is remarkable that two rites are brought together here
which belong respectively to the Feast of...
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EXPOSITION
1 SAMUEL 7:1
At Kirjath-jearim the people reverently undertook the charge of the
ark, and carried out their arrangements so carefully that no further
calamity occurred. On its arrival they...
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And so the men of Kirjathjearim came, and they took the ark of the
Lord; and they brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill, and
sanctified Eleazar the son to keep the ark of the Lord. And it ca...
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THE ARK WITH ABINADAB
1 Samuel 7:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We cover a period of twenty years, in which the Ark was in the care of
the House of Abinadab, under the charge of his son, Eleazar.
We wish to...